Avellanosa de Muñó

Avellanosa de Muñó municipality
Avellanosa de Muñó - town view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Arlanza Comarca
Coordinates	41 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 49 ′  W
Height :	870  msnm
Area :	36.89 km²
Residents :	108 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	2.93 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09345
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09032
administration
Website :	Avellanosa de Muñó

Avellanosa de Muñó is a place and a northern Spanish rural municipality ( municipio ) with 108 inhabitants (at January 1, 2019) in the center of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon .

Location and climate

The place Avellanosa de Muñó is located in the Castilian plateau (meseta) a good 50 km (driving distance) south of Burgos at an altitude of approx. 870  m ; the historically significant town of Lerma is located about 8 km to the northeast. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 500 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	565	672	619	162	114

The mechanization of agriculture and the abandonment of small farms have led to a significant decline in the number of inhabitants since the middle of the 20th century. The municipality also includes the hamlets (pedanías) Paúles del Agua , Pinedillo and Torrecitores del Enebral, each with about 25 inhabitants .

economy

The inhabitants of the rural community live mainly from agriculture (agriculture, cattle breeding and viticulture); the community is part of the Arlanza (DO) wine-growing region . Since the 1960s, the summer rental of holiday homes (casas rurales) has also played a certain economic role.

history

Celtic , Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish traces are missing. The place is first mentioned in a document in 1030; At the end of the 16th century he belonged to the manor (señorio) of the Duke of Lerma and the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos .

Attractions

Torrecitores - defense tower

• The parish church of San Miguel Arcángel is a single-nave building from the 13th to 18th centuries. The late Romanesque south portal contrasts with the rest of the building, which was fundamentally redesigned in the 18th century. The bell gable (espadaña) was optically shifted by an extension to the west of the church .
• Right next to the church is the rectory built in the 18th century .

Surroundings

• In the vicinity of the place are the ruins of several pigeon houses (palomares) from the 17th to 19th centuries with sloping pent roofs .
• The small Iglesia de San Mamès in the hamlet of Paúles de Agua is the almost unknown in Central Europe St. Mamas consecrated; it has a Romanesque portal and a beautiful Gothic apse . There are also some rock cellars ( bodegas ) .
• In the hamlet of Torrecitores del Enebral there is a medieval defense tower that probably belonged to an estate.

Web links

Commons : Avellanosa de Muñó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Avellanosa de Muñó - Photos + Info (wikiburgos, Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ Avellanosa de Muñó - Climate tables
3. ↑ Avellanosa de Muñó - Population Development
4. ↑ Avellanosa de Muñó - map etc.
5. ↑ Avellanosa de Muñó - History